The same old hocus-pocus: pedagogies of gender and sexuality in Shrek 2

The same old hocus-pocus: pedagogies of gender and sexuality in Shrek 2

The Shrek films are a popular worldwide and economic success. Drawing on an analysis of the film as well as responses from undergraduate students enrolled in a children's literature course, we analyze Shrek 2 as a teaching machine in which normative discourses of gender and sexuality circulate...

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Veröffentlicht in:Discourse (Abingdon, England) England), 2009-06, Vol.30 (2), p.151-164
Hauptverfasser: Marshall, Elizabeth, Sensoy, Özlem
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
children's film
Childrens films
Childrens Literature
Content Analysis
critical media education
Critical viewing
Females
Femininity
feminist analysis
Feminist criticism
Film criticism
Gender Issues
girlhood
Mass Media Effects
Media Adaptation
Media studies
Sexual Identity
Sexuality
Student attitudes
Teaching Machines
Undergraduate Students
University students
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Zusammenfassung:The Shrek films are a popular worldwide and economic success. Drawing on an analysis of the film as well as responses from undergraduate students enrolled in a children's literature course, we analyze Shrek 2 as a teaching machine in which normative discourses of gender and sexuality circulate under the guise of 'girl power'. We argue that while Shrek 2 purports to offer viewers a more progressive curriculum about girlhood in relationship to other media texts such as Disney, it ultimately reifies heterosexual white femininity as the norm.
ISSN:0159-6306
1469-3739
DOI:10.1080/01596300902809104